City size comparison

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Buenos Aires is about 1.8 times smaller than Detroit.

Detroit (map shows its 92 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 359 sq km, while Buenos Aires is approximately 203 sq km, making Buenos Aires 56.58% the size of Detroit.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Detroit vs. Buenos Aires uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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